Slightly Foxed introduces its readers to books that are no longer new and fashionable but have lasting appeal. It is slightly tongue in cheek, but well worth the reading now with so many people eager to show that our view of history is wrong. It has already faded a lot in the six weeks since I read it, but the one large thing I am taking away from it is an introduction to the work of J. You can unsubscribe from our list at any point by changing your preferences, or contacting us directly. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking.

England, their England, a now forgotten bestseller, was one of a series of travelogues produced by survivors of the First World War during the 1930s in a country recovering its sense of purpose and identity; unusually, in this case it took the form of an autobiographical novel. It was still fun to read though and that is not the case for many topical books written almost 90 years previously.

Which means we do not get the humor, those of us that live outside the Anglo- Saxon world and are unfamiliar with its attitudes - even if we have read the chef d’oeuvre Anglo-Saxon Attitudes by magical Angus Wilson http://realini.

Although the rest of his books have been largely forgotten, several of them earned accolades during his lifetime. Shakespeare Pollock sprang into the vortex with a last ear-splitting howl of victory and grabbed it off the seat of the wicket-keeper's trousers. Mrs Woolf, wife of the manager, is a very celebrated author and, in her own way, more important than Galsworthy. Reprint Society edition hardback; good, lightly aged to page edges, name on fep dated 1941; no dj; UK dealer, immediate dispatch. And it was a striking testimony to the mathematical and ballistical skill of the professor that the ball landed with a sharp report upon the top of his head.Macdonell was a regular contributor to The Observer, and was also a well-known broadcaster for the BBC Empire Service. Ostensibly about a scotsman coming to London to observe the English in preparation for writing a book about them, it is actually a lovely selection of glimpses into a bygone lifestyle of ill prepared diplomats, country house weekends and sport in its various guises amongst other things.